Vol 66 No 21 | NIGERIA The Tinubu-Shell trade-off behind a $7.5 billion investment 24th October 2025 UN experts warn that international oil companies’ opaque sales to local consortia flout environmental and human rights laws The tortuous bargaining between international oil companies – Shell, TotalEnergies and ExxonMobil – and President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s government over new investments has hit a succession of legal...
Vol 53 No 3 | NIGERIA How terror came to Kano 3rd February 2012 Boko Haram’s latest massacre raised more questions about the government’s security policy and the responsibility of northern leaders Since the killing of more than 185 people in Kano on 20 January, southern Nigerian politicians have been railing at Northern and Muslim leaders for their failure to...
Vol 60 No 10 | NIGERIA OPL245: Fight or flight 17th May 2019 A new claim for damages by the Federal Republic of Nigeria, linked to a historic scandal over the controversial award of the OPL 245 oil licence, is set...
Vol 64 No 12 | NIGERIA Shell holds up clean-up payments in graft row 26th May 2023 Sacked director of Ogoniland project spells out corruption concerns in rebuke to environment ministry Shell is withholding payments towards the Ogoniland clean-up until it sees a full accounting for the disputed contracts issued to date, Africa Confidential has learned from sources in... READ FOR FREE
Vol 55 No 4 | NIGERIA Data battles in Abuja 21st February 2014 Nigeria's most sensational political row for a decade began with a dispute over arithmetic. The figure in question was US$49.8 billion: that was the oil sales revenue between...